Weekly Legal Updates for Law Entrance Exams (1st-07th September 2019)

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Updated : Sep 10, 2019, 13:00

By : Surajit Bhaduri

Dear Students,

In this post, we have covered the Legal updates of the first week of September (01-07th). "Weekly Legal Updates" series aims to provide important legal events and developments. These updates will help aspirants appearing for Law Entrance Exams.

2. The Central government has issued a notification clarifying that utilisation of any sound recording during the course of a religious ceremony including marriage procession and any other social festivities associated with marriage does not amount to copyright violation. Thus, no license is required to be obtained for the utilisation of any sound recording during the course of any religious ceremony including marriage procession and any other social festivities associated with marriage.

3. Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notification to designate Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Zaki Lakhvi and Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar as terrorists. Central government was recently empowered by Section 35(1)(a) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, as amended by the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2019, to notify the names of individuals who it believes to be involved in terrorism as terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

4. Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of Justice Vijaya K Tahilramani, the current Chief Justice of Madras High Court to Meghalaya High Court as its Chief Justice. Supreme Court collegium has also recommended the transfer of Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court, Justice A K Mittal to Madras High Court as its Chief Justice.

Note: Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, VK Tahilramani has decided to submit her resignation days after the Supreme Court Collegium recommended that she be transferred to the Meghalaya High Court.

5.Supreme Court has rejected the plea filed by former Union Minister P Chidambaram seeking anticipatory bail in the case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him in the INX Media case.

Note: The INX Media case pertains to the alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance to INX Media at the time when P Chidambaram was the Finance Minister. It is the case of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram received illegal gratification from INX Media owners, Peter and Indrani Mukherjea for the clearance of Foreign Investment.